The toxins in the mushroom, Amanita muscaria, are water soluble. This applies to the two psychoactive compounds, ibotemic acid and its decaroxolated derivative, muscomol as well as the small quantity of muscarine found in the mushroom. There is a long documented history of detoxifying Amanita muscaria through boiling. I have published an extensive history of…
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English Horse-breads circa 1600 to 1800
Download the PDF to my article in Gastronomica on the breads fed to race horses in England beginning in the 1590s. It turns out that for centuries the most detailed instructions for making bread published in English were written for horses. Gervase Markham, who is well known amongst culinary historians as the author of the…
William Rubel 